Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 2 | In truth it drags along far to slowly and is never quite interesting or gripping enough in the right places despite the considerable efforts of the players . |
| 3 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 4 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 6 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 7 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 8 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 9 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
| 11 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 14 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
| 15 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 16 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
| 18 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 19 | The causes of the problem of soil erosion lie only in the actual place in which the physical symptoms are felt . |
| 20 | As a safeguard against apostasy ( 17:7 ) , sacrifice might be offered only in the proper place , and to the proper Person . |
| 21 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
| 22 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 23 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 24 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 25 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 26 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 27 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 28 | And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’ |
| 29 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 30 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |